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“If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.”

Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865

“Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.”

Heart Passion Energy Deals Violence Blood Color Personality Integrity Hundred Red Horse Stronger Loyalty Generosity Subtle Shade Egoism Indignation Shameless Arteries Pastel

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.”

Years Color Hundred Years Ago Skins Remains Slave Bondage

Book:A Time for Action

Source: A Time for Action

“I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.”

People Men Firsts Said Different Play Stories Kids Actors Differences Heard Color Hundred My Friends Let Me I Realized Pilots Spiders Different Peoples Spider Man

Author:Brian Michael Bendis